Chocolate Confectionery & Bars

part of: Cacao

This category covers the broad world of chocolate confectionery — bars, blocks, and individually wrapped sweets where chocolate is the star. It includes filled bars with layers of caramel, nougat, biscuit, or nuts, as well as solid chocolate blocks and chocolate-coated treats.

Chocolate bars are one of the most popular snack categories in Australia, with local favourites like Cherry Ripe, Violet Crumble, and Cadbury Dairy Milk sitting alongside global brands. They range from mass-produced impulse buys at the servo to handcrafted single-origin bars from artisan makers. The variety is enormous — milk, dark, white, filled, layered, and coated.

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How it's made

Cacao beans are fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground into cocoa liquor, which is refined and conched with sugar, milk powder, and cocoa butter to produce smooth chocolate. For filled bars, components like caramel, nougat, and nuts are prepared separately, then assembled in layers and enrobed in tempered chocolate. The bars are cooled, cut to size, and wrapped for packaging.

Nutrition (per 100g)

Energy 490kcal
Protein 7.5g
Carbs 59.2g
Fat 23.8g
Fibre 2.3g Sugar 50.5g
Mass Distribution

1 bar (2 oz) is about 57 g — roughly 280 kcal of this.

What it costs the planet (per kilo)

Carbon ≈2.5kg
Freshwater ≈480L
Land ≈1.9m²

≈ Estimated from its category — typical for sugar, not measured for this item yet. Where this comes from →

Where it comes from

In the kitchen

Used as

chocolate peanut candy bar

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Where this data comes from

Nutrition data from

USDA

How it was calculated

SR Legacy

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Where to next

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